Thirteen years old Vaibhav Suryavansh became indian premier leagueYoungest Crorepati on Monday (IPL) rajasthan royals (RR) bid Rs 110 crore for him at the auction in Jeddah to bring the young batsman into their training camp. But what piqued the 2008 champion’s interest in a kid just entering his teens? RR head coach Rahul Dravid answered the question.
“Vaibhav participated in our trials and we were very happy with what we saw,” Dravid said in the video released by IPL on ‘X’.
In fact, Vaibhav was on trial with RR and Delhi Capitals – his father Sanjeev Suryavanshi told TOI Suryavanshi) is a farmer and part-time journalist from Tajpur, Samastipur (Bihar).
“Rajasthan and Delhi summoned him for trial in Nagpur and Delhi,” the father said. “In Nagpur, he was asked to score 17 runs in an over. He hit three huge sixes in the first three balls, which made him a strong contender for the RR team. He is in DC Also performed well in the trials.
With a base price of Rs 30 lakh, Vaibhav is the youngest person to enter the auction pool in IPL history, and getting the deal done can only make things better for him and his family. Both Rajasthan and Delhi were impressed with Vaibhav’s performance in the trials and both pursued him until RR finally settled on the left-handed batsman.
Vaibhav is currently in Dubai with the Indian team for the U-19 Asia Cup.
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“I think he has some very good skills,” former India coach Dravid said of Vaibhav’s trial. “So we thought this might be a good environment for him to grow up in.”
Becoming the youngest player to get an IPL contract is not the only record in Vaibhav’s name.
Earlier this year, he became the youngest international centurion at the age of 13 years and 188 days to score hundreds in the first youth Test between India U-19 and Australia U-19 in Chennai.
It took him just 58 centuries, which is the fastest Test century by an Indian teenager and the second fastest century in the world.
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Talking about RR’s strategy to finalize its squad at the two-day auction in the Saudi Arabian port city, Dravid said: “We went into this auction retaining a lot of core Indian batsmen. .The main target for us in this auction was really the bowlers, making sure we built a strong bowling attack and I think we did that.
